October Madness: Elite 8

by
Heather Thorstensen
| Sep 02, 2015

Results are in for the Sweet 16 round of October Madness, Sigma Xi's 2015 public Nobel Prize prediction contest! Thanks to everyone who voted for your top picks for the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, chemistry, and physics.

See who made it through to the Elite 8 round, then vote to secure your favorites in the Final 4. Voting for the Elite 8 ends on midnight EDT on Monday, September 7. Due to the Labor Day holiday, we plan to post results and kick off Final 4 voting on September 9.

Sweet 16 Voting Results

* William Moerner, Michael Orrit, and Richard Zare won the popular vote for the chemistry prize for single-molecule spectroscopy and application of lasers. However, because we realized Moerner already won a Nobel Prize in 2014 for his work on super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, which relates to his work in single-molecule spectroscopy, his group does not advance to the Elite 8 round.